Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.30 family circle; .50 parquet

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 January 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
27 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
28 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
29 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
30 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
31 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Dan Bryant as Sole Owen’s Shingle – first time.

Current Events (Edwin Booth’s Evenings with Shakespeare and Artemus Ward)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dan Bryant
2)
Capture, initiation and escape of Artemus Ward among the Mormons
aka Life among the Mormons; Artemus Ward among the Mormons
Text Author: Bryant
Participants:  Dan Bryant (role: Artemus)
3)
"Mormon giraffe, The"
Participants:  Dan Bryant
4)
Black chemist, The
Text Author: White
5)
"Evenings with Shakespeare"
6)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
7)
"Sole Owen’s shingle"
Participants:  Dan Bryant
8)
Whose foot dat a burning

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 December 1864, 7.

“First time of an amusing sketch by D.B., entitled The Capture, Initiation and Escape of Artemus Ward Among the Mormons.  Dan Bryant as ‘Artemus,’ in which he will introduce Brigham Young’s Dancing Giraffe. . . . Dan Bryant, first time as Sole Owen’s Shingle.”

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 December 1864, 4.

Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”